Verstappen tops final practice
Team Holland bolted on a fresh set of rubber late in the final free practice session allowing Jos Verstappen to record the fastest lap
With only three new sets of Cooper tyres available for today's sessions, many of the favoured runners opted to save their new rubber for qualifying later on. This allowed some unfancied names to rise to the head of the times, and for most of the hour Team Pakistan's Adam Khan was quickest.
Verstappen's late effort bumped the green and white car back to second, while third place fell to the ever-improving Team China car of Teng Yi Jiang. Stephen Simpson was fourth for Team South Africa, while Matt Halliday was fifth fastest for Team New Zealand.
Fancied runners Team France, Team Ireland and Team Brazil all opted not to run a fresh set of tyres and were 14th, 10th and 21st respectively. Expect all three to feature more prominently in qualifying.
Team Germany ended up in eighth. Timo Scheider, who was racing in the FIA GT series in Dubai yesterday, did an excellent job despite only arriving in Malaysia a few hours before the start of the session. Robbie Kerr was 15th for Team Great Britain.
Pos Team Driver Time Laps 1. Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1:55.193 8 2. Pakistan Adam Khan 1:55.489 + 0.296 16 3. China Tengyi Jiang 1:55.526 + 0.333 13 4. South Africa Stephen Simpson 1:55.660 + 0.467 16 5. New Zealand Matt Halliday 1:55.803 + 0.610 14 6. India Armaan Ebrahim 1:55.805 + 0.612 19 7. Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1:56.195 + 1.002 15 8. Germany Timo Scheider 1:56.999 + 1.806 22 9. Switzerland Neel Jani 1:57.269 + 2.076 18 10. Ireland Ralph Firman 1:57.590 + 2.397 17 11. Canada Sean Mcintosh 1:57.780 + 2.587 11 12. Malaysia Alex Yoong 1:57.896 + 2.703 13 13. Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1:58.008 + 2.815 11 14. France Alexandre Premat 1:58.036 + 2.843 17 15. Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1:58.517 + 3.324 9 16. Austria Mathias Lauda 1:58.539 + 3.346 17 17. Japan Hayanari Shimoda 1:58.546 + 3.353 14 18. USA Bryan Herta 1:58.668 + 3.475 9 19. Mexico Luis Diaz 1:58.855 + 3.662 19 20. Czech Republic Tomas Enge 1:59.018 + 3.825 9 21. Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1:59.034 + 3.841 19 22. Lebanon Khalil Beschir 1:59.159 + 3.966 21 23. Australia Will Davison 1:59.507 + 4.314 6 24. Portugal Alvaro Parente 1:59.955 + 4.762 12
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